The Abbey of the Holy Trinity (French: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité) is an 11th century Romanesque Benedictine Abbey church located in Lessay, Manche, France...

monastery but a town grew up around it over the years. The 10th-century Lessay Abbey is one of the greatest examples of Romanesque architecture in Normandy...

Early rib vault in east end of Lessay Abbey, Normandy (about 1098) (photo from before World War II) Nave of Vézelay Abbey, (1104–1132) with Romanesque groin...

(1135–1490). Others appeared in the deambulatory of the Abbey of Saint Denis in Paris (1140–1144), Lessay Abbey in Normandy (1064–1178), Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily...

appearance. Lessay Abbey, with its Norman lantern tower and at transept and semicircular chevet at the east end Rib vaults of Lessay Abbey (1098), restored...

(1093–) and in Lessay Abbey in Normandy (1098). However, the first buildings to be considered fully Gothic are the royal funerary abbey of the French kings...

Lessay Abbey, an example of Romanesque architecture...

are greatly outnumbered by churches. The most significant are the great abbey churches, many of which are still standing, more or less complete and frequently...

also underway in Normandy in the late 11th and 12th centuries. In 1098 Lessay Abbey was given an early version of the pointed rib vault in the choir. The...

metres from land—made it accessible at low tide to the many pilgrims to its abbey, and defensible as the incoming tide stranded, drove off, or drowned would-be...

communities[citation needed]. The rib vault with pointed arches was used at Lessay Abbey in Normandy in 1098, Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily and at Durham Cathedral...

nineteenth century. Since then it has been argued that other buildings like Lessay Abbey in north-west France provided the early experimental ribs that created...

abbey, museum or other property in the care of English Heritage. List of Cadw properties (Wales) List of Historic Scotland properties List of abbeys and...

Saint-Honorat, Alpes-Maritimes) Lessay Abbey (Abbaye de Lessay), monks, Diocese of Coutances (Lessay, Manche) Lézat Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lézat)...

outside the walls. Église_Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand in Poitiers (about 1130) Lessay Abbey in Normandy (begun 1080), with a triforium instead of a tribune as the...

was founded for three Benedictine monks, and was a dependency by the Lessay Abbey in Normandy. In about 1126, upon the marriage of Robert's daughter Cecily...

12th century or earlier: in 1105 it was granted by Robert de Haye to Lessay Abbey in Normandy. Its dedication to St Leodegar, the 7th-century bishop of...

churches of Old Shoreham and Boxgrove Priory have similar architecture to Lessay Abbey. Uncommon in England except for in Sussex and Kent, which were relatively...

example of such a château. The confident church architecture such as at Lessay and Bayeux has left its mark on the landscape, as well as an artistic legacy...

Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...

abbot of Lessay. His funeral was presided over by Gilbert Fitz Osbern, Bishop of Évreux. The remains of Herluin can be seen in the abbey church, with...

foundation of Thetford Priory and, in Normandy, to the Benedictine abbey of Lessay that his father had supported. When Stephen became king in 1135, William...

disputed mill was awarded to the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel. On 14 July 1080 he witnessed a charter to the Abbey of Lessay (in the diocese of Coutances)...

1386 - 1410 : Pierre Le Roy, former abbot of Saint-Taurin d'Évreux, and of Lessay 1410 - 1444 : Robert Jollivet 1444 - 1483 : Guillaume d'Estouteville 1483...

consecrated. c.1063 Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, Normandy founded. Greensted Church, Essex, England, built. 1064 – Abbey of Lessay, Normandy begun. 1065...

of 8,627. The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, was given to the Abbey of Lessay in Normandy in 1105 and later passed to Boxgrove Priory. There is an...

Abbey of Lessay, Normandy begun. Duomo of Santa Maria Assunta in Pisa, Tuscany begun. 1065 – Sankt Maria im Kapitol, Cologne consecrated. 1067 Abbey of...

of Pisa. 1174 – Monreale Cathedral begun. 1175 – Sainte-Trinité Abbey Church in Lessay begun. 1175 – Soissons Cathedral begun. 1175–1176 – Wells Cathedral...

lodgments, and keep the U.S. First Army from launching an attack towards Lessay-Périers that would cut off the Cotentin Peninsula. Carentan was defended...

sufferings of the people. Grocheio consulted a monk named Clement at the Abbey of Lessay as his source for musica vulgaris. Grocheio further specifies that...